Adam Silver encourages Boston to apply to host the NBA All-Star Game

Boston is ready to be one of many facilities of the basketball world for the subsequent couple of weeks. It may be the middle of the basketball world in the course of the winter within the close to future.

The Celtics are getting ready to make a bid to host the NBA All-Star Sport within the coming years, The Boston Globe‘s Gary Washburn reported in April. NBA commissioner Adam Silver appears greater than open to holding one of many league’s yearly marquee occasions in Boston.

“I encourage that utility from Boston. Great metropolis and clearly we’ll be there quickly,” Silver informed reporters at his annual press convention forward of the NBA Finals on Thursday. Silver added that there’s a “lengthy record of NBA cities” that wish to host the All-Star Sport within the close to future.

In his April report, Washburn detailed that the Celtics’ bid for would possible be for both the 2025 or 2026 All-Star Sport. Boston mayor Michelle Wu is supportive of the bid, in response to Washburn.

Boston hasn’t hosted the NBA’s star occasion since 1964. That All-Star Sport turned well-known for what transpired previous to the sport, during which the gamers refused to play until the league acknowledged the gamers’ union.

Silver’s completely happy to see cities like Boston, in addition to Salt Lake Metropolis (host for the 2023 recreation) and Indianapolis (host for the 2024 recreation), present curiosity in internet hosting the All-Star Sport.

“There was a interval, possibly it appears 10-plus years in the past, the place it turned disfavored to have All-Star Video games for no matter cause, and now they’re again,” Silver stated. “I’ve bought an extended record of NBA cities that wish to have All-Star — it’s not even a recreation anymore. It’s not even a weekend. It’s per week of actions. We’re thrilled to be in Utah. It’s not simply Salt Lake Metropolis subsequent yr nevertheless it’s Utah; it’s the Salt Lake Metropolis environs. They push it out to the snowboarding and climbing within the mountains and all the pieces else.

“For us, we solely have that as our impartial web site occasion, that means the place the league can host friends from around the globe and has a number of tickets. Right here we’re scrounging for tickets right here, like all people else in San Francisco and will likely be in Boston. It’s an excellent alternative for us, and in addition simply we like it as per week to shine the world’s consideration on basketball”